Before Match.com, nightclubs and happy hours, singles congregated at community dance halls for a shot at catching Cupid’s arrow. Dance halls were particularly popular in western states — Texas had the most — in the early 20th century, but one of the most spectacular specimens remains right here at Glen Echo Park.

The desire in the eyes of the dancers in Companhia Urbana de Dança fuels the creativity of its Brazilian choreographer and artistic director. “We definitely are not an ordinary dance company,” Sonia Destri Lie (known as Destri) said of the ensemble she co-founded in 2005, its members recruited from Rio de Janeiro’s poor suburbs and favelas (mostly View more

We’re nearing peak “Nutcracker” season, when Clara’s trippy dreamscape unfolds on stages near and far in all its holiday grandeur. But for the past couple of years, an original version choreographed by Jacqueline Akhmedova has been helping local dancers chase their dreams of becoming professionals. On the evening of Dec. 16, her namesake company, A View more

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